Selected Quotes of Al Gore

Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948 in Washington. He was the 45th vice president under Bill Clinton’s presidency. Prior to becoming the vice president, AlGore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990.

Al Gore attended Harvard University where he graduated with a B.A. in 1969. After graduation, he served as a reporter in the Vietnam war.

Gore is credited for boosting the progress of the Information Superhighway which he stated would become a driver to reduce inequality in the world.

He has made global warming and climate change one of his key battle since the early 2000s. Gore has published various books such as An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason and Earth in the Balance, among many others. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

From global warming to the Internet, read our selected quotes from Al Gore

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Al Gore

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.

Al Gore

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

Al Gore

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Al Gore

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives – and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Al Gore

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

Al Gore

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Al Gore

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Al Gore

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Al Gore

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Al Gore

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

Al Gore

Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Al Gore

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.

Al Gore

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

Al Gore

Hey, you know what, I’ve gotta go on that ‘Letterman’ show. That show is so lame.

Al Gore

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Al Gore

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Al Gore

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Al Gore

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Al Gore

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Al Gore

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Al Gore

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Al Gore

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.